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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






2. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






3. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






4. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






5. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






6. The selection of words in a literary work.






7. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






8. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






9. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






10. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






11. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






12. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






13. The dictionary meaning of a word.






14. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






15. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






16. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






17. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






18. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






19. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






20. What a story or play is about.






21. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






22. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






23. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






24. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






25. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






26. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






27. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






28. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






29. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






30. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






31. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






32. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






33. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






34. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






35. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






36. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






37. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






38. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






39. Broken down acts.






40. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






41. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






42. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






43. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






44. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






45. The main character of a literary work.






46. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






47. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






48. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






49. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






50. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.